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Deep sea pipelines to green gas production

October 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are working to tap into a wealth of natural gas resources located in distant, deep-ocean fields off the coast of Western Australia.


Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it's supercopter

October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned helicopters could soon be a key part of emergency relief operations, as well as bringing a new dimension to filmmaking, thanks to some innovative work done by European researchers.


Researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming

October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Ratnesh Kumar keeps his prototype soil sensors buried in a box under his desk. He hopes that one day farmers will be burying the devices under their crops.


CarTel uses WiFi to personalize commutes

October 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dozens of cars in the Boston area are testing the latest generation of an MIT mobile-sensor network for traffic analysis that could help drivers cut their commuting time, alert them to potential ...


Brightening the future for optical circuits

October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.


Boosting the capabilities of emergency relief efforts

October 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Humanitarian relief efforts are often hampered by the inability of the different international and local bodies involved to properly communicate and share information. European researchers have come up with a new system to ...


Portable imaging system will help maximize public health response to natural disasters

October 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a low-cost, high-resolution imaging system that can be attached to a helicopter to create a complete and detailed picture of an area ...


Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead ...


New Sensor Could Help Avert Pipeline Failures

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation ...


An 'electric' future for Formula 1 gearboxes?

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards for his final-year research project, ...


Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 6

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...


This is your grid on brains

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...


Honda Introduces All-New Insight Dedicated Hybrid Concept Vehicle at Paris Motor Show

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Honda Motor presented the concept model of its all-new Insight dedicated hybrid vehicle scheduled to be introduced in 2009, at the 2008 Paris Motor Show.


An a-maize-ing path out of poverty

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, processing the corn harvest is labor intensive: Families and friends gather to spend a day or two filling bags with the dried cobs, beating then to ...


Baked Slug: New Method to Test Fireproofing Material

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

In a high-temperature blaze, how well does a fireproofing material shield a building’s important steel structures from heat? Answering this question has been surprisingly difficult, but it is important information ...


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